Communications Associate

Application deadline: August 14, 2026 at 5:00 PM MST.

About the role

The Colorado State Land Board, a state agency that manages a $6 billion endowment of assets for the benefit of K-12 schoolchildren, is looking for a Communications Associate who will assist with communications, marketing, and outreach. Your work will help broadcast the agency’s longstanding contributions to the state of Colorado.

The Colorado State Board of Land Commissioners (State Land Board) is a constitutionally created agency that manages a $6 billion endowment of assets for the intergenerational benefit of Colorado’s K-12 schoolchildren and public institutions. The agency is the second-largest landowner in Colorado and generates revenue on behalf of beneficiaries by leasing nearly three million surface acres and four million subsurface acres for agriculture, grazing, recreation, ecosystem services, commercial real estate, rights-of-way, renewable energy, oil, gas, and solid minerals. Unlike public lands, trust lands are not open to the public unless a property has been leased for public access. The agency is entirely self-funded and receives no tax dollars.

Though we are a 150-year-old, constitutionally chartered agency, we take pride in being entrepreneurial and business-savvy. We compete in private-sector markets daily and generate more than $300 million in revenue annually.

Responsibilities

• Support the State Land Board’s communications and outreach efforts, with a focus on storytelling and digital content.
• Support major updates to the SLB website, including improvements to content, organization, design, and structure.
• Research, draft, and edit written content for the agency’s blog and other platforms to support website goals.
• Translate complex topics into clear, engaging web content for a broad audience.
• Develop, script, and produce a series of informational videos highlighting each of the agency’s lines of business.
• Support development of other digital and multimedia storytelling content, including basic graphics and short-form video.
• Assist with other communications and outreach projects as assigned.
• Support outreach efforts, events, and media tracking as needed.

Qualifications

• Three (3) years of experience in an office environment performing communications support functions similar to website management and content writing and editing.
• OR a combination of education and/or relevant experience in an occupation related to the work assigned equal to three (3) years. Related degrees would include studies in business administration, marketing, natural resources management, among others.

Desired Characteristics

• Interest in strategic communication, natural resource management, or public lands policy.
• Excellent writing skills.
• Experience or interest in generating multi-faceted content or conducting fieldwork/data analysis.
• Strong organizational skills.
• Team player, yet also an independent worker.
• Great work ethic, disciplined, conscientious, thorough, and diligent.
• Honest, trustworthy, dependable.
• Enthusiastic, energetic, optimistic, positive attitude, a bias for action.

Pay

$25/hour.

Schedule

• 9-month paid internship.
• 40 hours per week.
• Expected start: August 2026.
• Hybrid (some remote, some in-person time) based in Denver office at 1127 Sherman St, Denver, CO 80203.

Conditions of Employment

The selected candidate must be a resident of Colorado at the time of employment.